Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Death Penalty "A system that will take life must first give justice." — John J. Curtin, Jr.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I've got players with bad watches—they can't tell midnight from noon." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democracy "Democracy is created by making an aggressive, determined, and long-term effort at eradicating the real axis of evil: poverty, homelessness, no health care." — Tony Kushner

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democrats "America does not need two Republican parties." — John Kerry

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Disabilities "Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world—making the most of one's best." — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "They got a lot of kids now whose uniform are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way, there is no way their face can get on the camera." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Dissent "The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." — Archibald MacLeish

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "You have have a catcher, or you'll have all passed balls." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Diversity & Pluralism "Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and nor use or value them creatively." — Bill Mollison

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "They say he's [Yogi Berra{Hall of Shame member #6}] funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?" — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Doubt "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." — Buddha

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Economic Justice "One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't waste a lot of time thinking about the people who built their pyramids, either" — Molly Ivins

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On WMD—Weapons of Mass Destruction "The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush in the Rose Garden, 9-26-02, Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, "Bush Certainty on Iraq Arms Went Beyond Analysts' Views," Washington Post, 6-7-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bull pen." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Education "Strong schools are as important to our future as a strong defense." — Edward M. Kennedy

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Clinton Bashing "I really don't think that I'm going to be able to cause anybody to take out Bill Clinton. But if I can, I hope their aim is good and I hope the bullet passes through Al Gore first. And if you want a trifecta, take Hillary, too." — Talk Show Host Rollye James, KLBJ Radio, Austin, Texas, 10-15-96. When a caller to the show praised a bumper-sticker reading, "Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that we need him?" Rollye James enthusiastically agreed and another caller complained, prompting James's response above. Gore, James added, is "more dangerous" than Clinton, because he "really believes in all these socialistic programs." As a result of this, KLBJ fired James, who now has a syndicated show. Michael King, "It Was No Joking Matter," Austin American-Statesman editorial, 10-26-96. {The quotes for the next four days is a letter in response to this editorial.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Billy Almon has all of his in-law and outlaws here this afternoon." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Equality "From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert you neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous at your own." — Carl Schurz

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres—two doubles and a triple." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Faith "Faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of the heart to believe any truth which God may show." — Margaret Deland

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "[Manny] Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Families "Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole." — Kate Millett

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals "By the way, it's probably a good thing Vice President Gore wasn't at Independence Hall in 1776! I bet he would have tried to talk Jefferson out of that risky independence scheme!" — Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA) {later to be named the nation's top color coordinator and fear monger} addressing the Republican National Convention. PBS.org, 8-3-00.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fascism "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." — Aldous Huxley

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Inquisition "Tony Snow: Let me ask you, if you're a member of the United States Senate and you're reading the Constitution, would a strict constructionist have ruled that Bill Clinton should have been voted out of, left office?George W. Bush: Yeah, I mean he broke the law. He lied under oath. Although I don't think that's got anything to do with strict constructionism. I think that's got everything to do with upholding the law." — Fox News Sunday. "Bush: Clinton Should Have Been Convicted and Removed From Office," NewsMax.com, 1-30-00. {Tony, foolish boy, you made the worst assumption of all time, that Georgie is capable reading the Constitution. He has spent the last seven years proving that if he could, he wouldn't uphold it. Or did you write the response as well as the question? Bush can't put together coherent thought like that on the fly.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces, or less than five." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.